The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 181
And all the people declared that such a wonderful sight had never been seen, and talked about it to the ends of their lives.
Who acts: people · What happens: declare, not see, talk · To what, where: wonderful sight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 declared | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 people | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 declared | nsubj |
| 5 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 seen | mark |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 sight | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sight | det |
| 9 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sight | amod |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 seen | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 declared | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 talked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 talked | cc |
| 17 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 declared | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 talked | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 ends | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ends | det |
| 22 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 talked | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 lives | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lives | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ends | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | all people | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect · passive | such wonderful sight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | talk | past | all people not said here | to the ends of people's lives | about sight | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic to end=Co-Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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